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ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies, Volume 2 (2021), Issue 6

Masashi Iwabuchi received B.S. Yasushi Takatori Yasushi
and M.S. degrees from the Tokyo Takatori received B.E. and M.E.
Institute of Technology, Tokyo, degrees from Tohoku University,
Japan, in 2008 and 2010, Miyagi, Japan in 1993 and 1995,
respectively. From 2010 to 2016, respectively. He received his
he joined the NTT Access Network Ph.D. degree in Wireless
Service Systems Laboratories, Communication Engineering from
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Aalborg University, Aalborg,
Corporation (NTT). His current research interests Denmark in 2005. He joined NTT in 1995. He is
are system design and radio access technologies for currently working for NTT access network service
future radio access. He received the Young systems laboratories as a senior distinguished
Engineers Award from the Institute of Electronics, researcher. He has served as a vice chairman of
Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) WLAN system development project in ARIB. His
in 2015. He is a member of the IEICE. current research interests include future wireless
access systems for Innovative Optical and Wireless
Network (IOWN). He was a visiting researcher at
Tomoaki Ogawa received a B.A.
in environmental information and the Center for TeleInFrastructure (CTIF), Aalborg
an M.A. in media and governance University from 2004 to 2005. He had served as a
co-chair of COEX Adhoc in IEEE 802.11ac from 2009
from Keio University, Kanagawa,
in 1996 and 1998. He joined NTT to 2010. He received the Best Paper Awards from
Network Innovation Laboratories IEICE in 2011, 2016 and 2020 respectively. He was
in 1998, where he has been honored with IEICE KIYASU Award in 2016. He
working on indoor-location systems. His recent received Radio Achievement Award from ARIB in
interest focuses on the development of wireless 2020. He also received the IEEE Standards
local area network services. He is a member of IEICE. Association's Outstanding Contribution
Appreciation Award for the development of IEEE
802.11ac-2013 in 2014. He is a senior member of
IEICE and a member of IEEE.

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